Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 15:07:55 -0500
From: Mary Donna Pond
Subject: Hygiene Kits for Disaster Assistance
In light of the recent earthquakes in Haiti and Chile, Chapel in the Pines Presbyterian Church will join churches across America to create Gift of the Heart hygiene kits.
Presbyterian Disaster Assistance, an emergency and refugee program of the Presbyterian Church U.S.A., is working with Church World Service to provide these needed essentials. Kits are kept on hand to enable quick movement of the supplies in the wake of a national or international crisis. Current supplies have been depleted. The national group creates baby, cleaning and school supplies kits as well.
Each hygiene kit will contain a hand towel, washcloth, bar of soap, toothbrush, nail clipper, comb and six bandages. The church will collect funds to purchase these items, and it is estimated that $10 will create one kit. Kits will be assembled on March 21 at 11:30 a.m. following morning worship at North Chatham School.
The goal is to create 100 hygiene kits. If you are interested in making a donation or helping to assemble the hygiene kits, please contact Mary Pringle at . Donations are tax-deductible and can be mailed directly to the church office: Chapel in the Pines Presbyterian Church 212 E. Rosemary Street Suite 101 Chapel Hill, NC 27514. Checks
should be made out to Chapel in the Pines Presbyterian Church with hygiene kits in the memo line. Any donations received after the kits have been assembled will be sent directly to the Presbyterian Disaster Assistance fund.
Chapel in the Pines meets every Sunday morning for worship at 10:30 a.m. in the multipurpose room at North Chatham School on 3380 Lystra Road. Child care is provided. Sunday school classes for adults, youth, and children begin at 9:15 a.m.